Kesselwagen
German, noun
Kesselwagen is spelled K-E-S-S-E-L-W-A-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 120,168th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kesselwagen is a German masculine noun meaning “tank car” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Kesselwägen is a different word: “plural of Kesselwagen”.
What does Kesselwagen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetank car
noun
- 1
masculineplural of Kesselwagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Kesselwagen
- Kesselwagens genitive
- Kesselwägen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Kesselwagen in German?
Kesselwagen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).